January 2011
8 posts
Cracking Open TED Books: Brilliant Ideas in Single... →
TED talks are popular for a number of reasons: they’re smart, lively, and perhaps most importantly, concise. Most talks are capped at approximately 2,000 words—just long enough for…
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Hit the Forests of... →
Modern technology is dengue fever’s new enemy.
Malaysia released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a local forest this month in an effort to curb dengue fever—dengue fever is…
German Researchers Build Terminator Robot Hand →
Warning: Do not watch this video if you lay awake at night, kept from sleep by the terrifying knowledge that one day soon the human race will be thrown into slavery by The Machines. For the…
Google launches a competitor to Groupon with... →
Google is preparing to launch Google Offers, the search giant’s Groupon competitor, Mashable has learned.
Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. Users receive an…
Anonymous asked: what to have for dinner
Report: First two years of college show small... →
Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority, a new report shows.
Citibank Opens "Bank of the Future" in New York →
Honeycomb: Android for Tablets →
Google has accidentally made public a YouTube video that shows Android 3.0 in action. It’s a completely new interface for tablets that borrows a lot of ideas from BumpTop, the 3D desktop software…